Do you know anyone in person who buys Blu-rays?

[levcore]

I only know one person who sometimes buys Blu Rays and they tend to only buy MCU/ Star Wars stuff. I was thinking about this recently and how i barely know anyone in my own life who actually buys blu rays. Even my buddies who are "film fans" don't buy ANY discs, they just pirate or wait for stuff to show up for free on streaming sites.

What's it like for you guys? Do you know lots of people who buy blu rays?

[Marv Inc.]

My oldman occasionally buys blu rays, most of the time its dvds. But apart from that no one.
All of my friends just watch stuff on netflix or amazon tv and people who i work with still buy dvds.

When I say to someone I just bought ..... on blu ray, I always get the look.

[Ste7en]

I used to know people who collected LDs and DVDs. I dare say they still do (buy physical media) but we have lost touch with one another.

My brother buys a few and my nephew does as well.

At work, most people seem to still buy DVDs. Or torrent

[levcore]

Originally Posted by Marv Inc.

My oldman occasionally buys blu rays, most of the time its dvds. But apart from that no one.
All of my friends just watch stuff on netflix or amazon tv and people who i work with still buy dvds.

When I say to someone I just bought ..... on blu ray, I always get the look.

Ha ha that last part, i mentioned to someone at work about buying something on Blu ray and they just looked at me like i was crazy. They literally responded with "who buys anything on blu ray?" They are in their early 20's so that's the generation that will be foregoing physical media entirely lol.

During film discussions (very brief ones) at work i've offered to lend somebody a disc only to find they don't have any equipment to play it on, not even a DVD player!!

[ElGranBluchadore]

I have a couple of mates who still buy physical media as well.

[gap]

Nope, no one in real life so to speak.

[Bolo Seagull]

Some people I know who have kids buy kids stuff on DVD. But other than that, no. Most people I know dumped their collections within the last 5 years. And the people who don't have videogame consoles don't even have any machine that would play a disc in their homes.

When mates visit me, there's frequently a nostalgic moment when they see I have shelves with discs on them. Then they say something about missing the old days of going to the videostore etc. But I guess they don't miss it that much or those places would still be in business.

[Marcus Aurelius]

Several people all of whom are keen cinephiles.

Paul Merton has a pretty decent library judging from his appearance on HIGNFY. Including The Third Man CE.

[johnlennon696]

My best mate. We share a lot of common interests in terms of films so we're always talking about the boutique labels stuff esp.

[CinemaScope]

No, but being retired I'm knowing less & less people these days.

[Sifox211]

Nobody at all.. apart from you lot

[drush9999]

My sister still buys DVDs
But no-one at work as I get ribbed about the number of parcels a fair amount

[ElGranBluchadore]

I still buy physical for 1) sound and image quality, 2) the extra's and packaging, and 3) the warm, fuzzy feeling of security that I can still count on watching my movies should the internet have an outage or the movie suddenly disappears from Netflix or wht have you.

[malcy30]

Originally Posted by drush9999

My sister still buys DVDs
But no-one at work as I get ribbed about the number of parcels a fair amount

You’re not the only one.

I must have kept our office post room in business with the number of parcels I used to get delivered before this WFH.

Although we’re not supposed to get personal deliveries at work they are happy to take mine. Have known them for years and regularly bribe them with chocolates and biscuits

Only one at work who seems to buy though.

My brother in law buys an occasional disc mainly UHD steelbooks. My sister won’t let him buy more.

[Aclea]

In the business - a couple
Outside the business - at least three, but only one in the UK

[Profondo]

I have only one friend who also collects though he restricts himself mainly to DVD as he thinks Blu-rays are too clean and fake looking!? I also have 167 PS4 games and around 2k music CD's as well as my Blu-rays and will continue to purchase physical product as long as it's available. My other friends find my collecting rather odd!

[Kuroneko]

Even with dvd's (back in the day) not a lot of people I know bought movies. They said: "why buy a movie, once you've seen it....you've seen it".

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by Kuroneko

Even with dvd's (back in the day) not a lot of people I know bought movies. They said: "why buy a movie, once you've seen it....you've seen it".

That annoys me no end, I try and compare it to listening to the same music again and again, but they don't get it.

[Geoff D]

Nope. All the kids I work with don't buy physical media in any form and even in my previous job with a few more tech-minded folk I was still the only one buying Blu as DVD was "good enough" for them. I'm probably the only person in the entire isle of Purbeck who actually buys 4K discs, or knows what it is

[ZeTi]

I consider myself very very lucky - my two best mates buy / collect blu-ray and are huge movie-geeks as well. Although we can enjoy almost every movie together, each one has a distinct collection style. One is more into Horror, the other everything 80s and myself is more into 70s eurocult and hong kong action.